School of Medicine
Building a healthy Congo
Dr. Samuel Mampunza heads this new school, which launched a preparatory year in 2006 with 200 students. Following one year of intensive English, physics, chemistry and biology, students will begin their medical training. With the average life expectancy declining in the CR Congo, this new Medical School could not come too soon. In the Fall of 2007, an Ebola outbreak ravaged an area in the Kasai Occidental Province with several hundred deaths.
The long term intent of the Medical School is:
- All medical students will undergo their internships and residencies at hospitals in Congo’s Rural Health Zones.
- Scholarship-supported students will sign contracts further obligating them to work at least two years in a rural hospital or clinic upon graduation.
- Degrees will not be conferred until the obligation has been met.
- English classes. French is the language of instruction, but a strong English program increases the breadth of study. The library contains a significant percentage of books in that language.
- Both the English and computer programs are receiving increased emphasis in order to support instruction at the new School of Medicine.
These photographs show the equipment arriving and our first class of Medical students using the new lab equipment.
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